Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image

Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy […]

Eva Jablonka on Epigenetics and Resonance

Professor Eva Jablonka is Emeritus Professor at the Cohen Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University and a world leading expert on epigenetic inheritance and evolution and the evolutionary transition to phenomenal consciousness. She has published extensively including:  Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb (1995) Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution […]

Yuk Hui on Qi and Concretisation

Yuk Hui is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Hui studied computer engineering at the University of Hong Kong, before writing this PhD thesis at Goldsmiths University London under French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and later obtained his Habilitation in philosophy from Leuphana University, Lüneburg. Hui is […]

James Maffie on Teotl

James Maffie is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at the University of Maryland. He is principally known for his work on Aztec philosophy, in particular his book Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion that came out with ‎University Press of Colorado in 2014, […]